The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-07
NEWS IN BRlEv.

4 a~ts1t VI AtSW NAGAlG0 Will feN1U @kN3fNS
IN 1890.
/ Co. Dawson, n,eoumissionerof educationt
who has recently returned from Alaska
reports great progress IN the work Of civ.
liking and educating the Indians AZ
Sitka there are two United States Govern.
lnent schools, one Presbyterian mission
and one Russian school The native Alas
kans are very docllc and sharp. wi.tsd, and
the children learn rapidly.
II appears from official statistics that on
the frat Of January in the present year,one
person In every ttlrty.four Of the popuia.
tlon Of Engiand and Wales was panper
On that day s1s.ais persons. men, women
and children, were receiving relief under
the present poor law, soI sos being indoor
and 6so.si7 outdoor psnpers,while Ioore.
celyed both Indosr and outdoor relief OF
this large number more than 10000 were
insane.
After successfully competing with the
ralsins OF Spain, California intends to show
France what can be done In fine prunes.
Shipments will arrive in.N New York early
this Fall.
According 10 an official return there are
ssy6 foreigners residing In Japan.of whom
Ifs5are British subjects, sos Americans,
3s5 Germans and ios French
II Il said .ha. ~ an almost direct result
Of the Wild West show In London. there
has been very large increase OF the mid.
dc and lower class emigration 10 America.
Forty Eve years ago there was not
postage stamp IN the United States.D During
the las, twelve months t.oos. 81 900 stamps
were utilized by people OF this country.
Statistics show that blindness Il increas.
ing very rapidly In the United States. BE.
tween the years 1870 aud 1850 the popula.
tIon Increased thirty per cent. and blind.
ness f4o. Il costs Sssoooooo year to
sustain an army OF over soooo blind peo.
pie on the lowest basis of cost and wages
that would have been earned. The chief
cause OF the rapid spread Of this inGiiesion
Is said 70 be eontagIon. assisted by I.nmi.
gratIon.whIch brings many infectious dis.
eases Of the eye Into the country.
Fonr hundred trains carried over 5000
people from Philadelphia on the las, day
Of the constitutional celebration. In ali
the crush not an accideat was reported.
Statistics show that the consumption Of
sugar In the last iiftv years has gone up
from about fifteen to seventy pounds per
head ; isea from l Il to ~ pounds per
head Of tobacco from 50 TO i-so pounds
per head.
According 20 Yucatan journals, that re.
gioa has been Waited by fabulous number
of bats, which have attacked the cattle.
causing much destruction and making
meat scarce.
Tonatoes are scarce all over the conn.
try. The Maryland packers have long
since declined 10 take orders,and the New
jersey packers have abandoned all hopes
OF filling their orders. Only term Of
two weeks Of favorable weather can pre-.
vent an extraordinary scarcity OF canned
tomatoes this season. unless they should
come from the West.
With the aid Of science, even the desert
Of Sahara Il becoming inhabitable aud col.
onization Is encouraged. The Lower
Sahara Is an immense basin Of artesian
waters, and the Frenchare forming fresh
oases with skill aud success, 40 that the
number of cultivated tracts Is increasing
rapidly. After a period Of thirty years
forty.three oases have 1900 inhabitants.
10000 trees between one and seven years
old and 10000 fruit trees.
There arc immense forests Of hemiock
In Oregon and Washington Territory, but
the bark is said to be destitute OF tannin,
and therefore useless for manufacturing
leather. The most tannin IL found in the
hemlock of Maine, and the farther West
the tree grows the less tannin Is found.
a new swindle upon farmers has been
perpetrated. They are invited 10 sign an
agreement not 70 kill birds for year,and
the pledges,with little manipulating, turn
up in the form of promissory notes.
Some ono In Iowa has introducedto no.
tice new fuel which is designed to take
the place Of coal in the prairie countries.
This fuel Is made by grinding cornstalks
and coarse prairie grass together, ,noisten-
ing them, and then pressing the pulp into
blocks about twelve inches long and four
| inches thick. These blocks are then dried
II 10 claimed that one block will give an
hours steady heat, and that the fuel can
be produced for So per ton.